Showing posts with label December 03. Show all posts
Showing posts with label December 03. Show all posts

Saturday, December 3, 2016

New photo from Facebook December 03, 2016 at 04:00PM

Akrabalık terminolojisine giriş. via @kaansezyum via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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British Ambassador to Turkey, Richard Moore (@UKAmbRichard) has become a Twitter star in Turkey….

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From Turkey with love: Old men using Starbucks like a coffeehouse…

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turkish style starbucks

They may not get black tea as they would desire…

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Turkey has entered the top 10 countries with the most items on the UNESCO Intangible Heritage List, with the addition of traditional flatbread during the 11th official meeting.

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Eurosphere agenda: Pirate Party asked to try to form government in Iceland…

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Iceland’s Pirate Party is asked by the president to try to form a new government, after snap elections.
In a surprise move Francois Hollande says he will not stand for a second term as French president.
The female imam fighting extremism and Islamophobia
Sherin Khankan set up the first female run mosque in Scandinavia, using it to battle both extremism and Islamophobia
More jihadi attacks likely in Europe, Europol says
The European joint police agency said that the group had shifted focus to so-called soft targets, because indiscriminate attacks on ordinary people have shown most successful in terrorising public opinion.
The French president announced on Thursday that he will not seek a second term next year. His prime minister Valls is likely to run against other unexpected candidates.
The UK’s ruling Conservatives have lost a seat in London dubbed the ‘Brexit by-election’, seeing the pro-EU Liberal Democrats overturn a 23,000 majority.
The European Parliament on Thursday (1 December) adopted spending by the European Union of nearly €158 billion for 2017, including a hefty increase to tackle the migration crisis and terrorism.
The seeds of post-Brexit racial violence lie in government policy

Racist attacks are condemned by politicians who stop short of examining their complicity. New research suggests policy ignites hatred.

“In the UK illegally?”, “Go home or face Arrest” went the slogans on the government’s Operation Vaken mobile ad-vans in July 2013. “Go back” out of “our country” echoed the abuse following the summer’s referendum.

Austrians ponder shift to far right
Austrian voters will on Sunday decide whether to stay in the EU centre, or lurch to the radical right, with Hofer slightly ahead in polls ahead of the presidential election.
Austria’s most infamous son, Adolf Hitler, is rarely mentioned in his home country. So it came as a shock to many when presidential candidate Alexander Van der Bellen reached into a folder during a recent live TV debate and produced a photo montage including two images of the Führer.

Debate: How should Bulgaria deal with refugees?

Refugees clashed last week with police at Bulgaria’s largest refugee camp in Harmanli, a town on the border with Turkey. Around 1,000 young men rebelled against restrictions on leaving the camp, throwing stones and erecting burning barricades. Bulgarian observers blame the EU for putting the country in an absurd situation.
After years of conflict, Berlin and Brussels have reached an agreement on revised plans for an autobahn toll: German motorists with particularly environmentally friendly cars can expect significant tax savings, while foreigners will have to pay according to use. The draft law must now be voted on by the Bundestag – and commentators have their doubts about whether it will pass.
François Hollande has announced that he will not stand for re-election as French president next spring. In a televised speech on Thursday evening the Socialist acknowledged that his running for office again could pose a risk for his party. A courageous decision that renews his credibility, some commentators stress. Others see the move as a clear admission of defeat.
Fear of globalisation is the driving force behind right-wing populism while traditional values play less of a role, a recent survey carried out by the Bertelsmann Foundation shows. In view of the rising popularity of right-wing demagogues in many European countries and in the US, commentators discuss how to counter right-wing populism.

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Cyberculture agenda: “”115 Facts You Never Knew About Social Media”.

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Improving Site Speed: Everything You Need to Know

Site speed is a critical consideration for all digital marketers – here are some key tips to help assess and improve your site.

We Won’t Let You Forget It: Why We Oppose French Attempts to Export the Right To Be Forgotten Worldwide

One country’s government shouldn’t determine what Internet users across the globe can see online. But a French regulator is saying that, under Europe’s “Right to be Forgotten,” Google should have to delist search results globally, keeping them from users across the world. That’s a step too far, and would conflict with the rights of users in other nations, including those protected by the laws and Constitution of the United States.

Google Earth: The 25-Year Search

Remember back to the time when you first opened Google Earth. Where did you fly? Nearly all of us search for the same place: Home. The starting point. Where we fit into the bigger picture, and one way we define our sense of identity.

Imagine if you didn’t know where “home” was? What would you search for first?

Google’s training AI to catch diabetic blindness before it’s too late

Diabetes is no joke, regardless of what Wilford Brimley memes you’ve seen. The disease’s associated foot ulcers can lead to amputation of the limb while diabetic retinopathy (DR) can rob people of their sight. Some 415 million diabetics worldwide are..

The Internet Archive doesn’t feel safe in Trump’s America

The Internet Archive collects the history of the internet, one webpage at a time, in order to power services like the Wayback Machine, the free e-book site Open Library and the Political TV Ad Archive. It’s a non-profit based in the United States, bu…

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While nationalist alliance agree on presidential system, Dollar and euro rise to record against lira…

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The leaders of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) have agreed to submit a charter draft, which grants more executive powers to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to parliament next week, after the two leaders reviewed the text in a meeting on Dec. 1
The U.S. dollar reached a historic high of 3.4998 Turkish Liras on Dec. 1 in the afternoon, as the euro rose to 3.7162, again an all-time high
Asking people to change their foreign currencies to Turkish Lira or gold, President Erdoğan has said there is no other way than decreasing interest rates.
The Turkish government has raised the special consumption tax on alcoholic drinks and tobacco products, according to a notice in the government’s Official Gazette on Dec. 1
In response to TÜSİAD Chair Symes saying “State of Emergency must be ended”, PM YIldırım has said “We have no objection to ending State of Emergency but we haven’t taken any decision that directly affects economy”.
Freedex – Nov 28

During the week of November 14th, I conducted an official mission to Turkey. During the mission, I requested visits with many detainees held for reasons related to their exercise of the freedom of expression. Although I was able to visit several

Schoolgirls die in Turkey dormitory blaze after fire door ‘wouldn’t open’

Blaze believed to have been caused by electrical fault raced through wooden interior as panicked victims tried to jump to safety

A total of 12 people were killed and 22 were wounded late on Nov. 29 when a fire broke out at a private girls’ dormitory in the Aladağ district of the southern province of Adana, the governor’s office has announced

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New photo from Facebook December 03, 2016 at 11:36AM

3D printer’la üretilmiş satranç taşları. via Reddit. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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Thursday, December 3, 2015

Journalism agenda: With 40,000 paid subscribers, Dutch journalism platform The Correspondent becoming a success story….

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Today, Dutch journalism platform The Correspondent announced it just reached 40,000 paying members. The feat is nothing short of amazing considering it started without a website — or any content for that matter — crowdfunded $1.7 million dollars, and continued to leverage this early success into a viable business and now into a true success story. But let’s back up a second. You can’t talk about crowdfunding without talking about what’s making us take a closer look at it. In this case, it’s declining ad revenue due to ad-blocking. No matter which side of the ad-blocking debate you fall on, both sides realize that…

Dutch news site De Correspondent has signed up 40,000 paid members

In the two years since it began publishing in the fall of 2013, the Dutch news siteDe Correspondent has signed up 40,000 paying members, the site said Tuesday.

Time and time again, the first reports from the scene of breaking news are shared by eyewitnesses with smartphones and social media accounts. Whether a photo, a video or a panicked string of text, people can share what they are seeing with the world in real time, making the phenomenon central in how news organisations report an event.

Reporters from digital outlets and niche publications now hold more seats in theU.S. Senate Press Gallery than reporters from daily newspapers do, according to a new report from Pew. That’s a change from the late 1990s, when “daily newspaper staff outnumbered such journalists by more than two-to-one.”

As soon as Jeff Bezos heard about Facebook Instant Articles, he wanted to participate.

“We saw [Bezos] in Sun Valley,” Dan Rose, the VP of partnerships at Facebook, said in a recent panel at the Paley International Council Summit. “He said, ‘Hey, The Washington Post isn’t participating yet. Would you please let us in? I think that we’d be your best partner.’” And, Rose said, Bezos — the CEO of Amazon and, since 2013, the owner of The Washington Post — was true to his word: The Washington Post is putting all of its content on the platform.

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